Clinton campaign denies top aide's involvement in Muslim magazine

Huma
Abedin, an aide to Hillary Clinton, with Clinton at the
conclusion of the second official 2016 Democratic presidential
debate in Des Moines, Iowa, in 2015.REUTERS/Jim Young

The Hillary Clinton campaign
denied on Sunday that a top aide had an active role at a
Muslim journal that has published articles whose ideology clashes
with major tenets of Clinton's campaign.

The New York Post
noted this weekend that the Journal of Muslim Minority
Affairs, where Huma Abedin was listed as an assistant editor from
1996 to 2008, published an article in 1996 titled "Women's Rights
are Islamic Rights," a likely play on Clinton's "women's rights
are human rights" quote.

The article reportedly espoused antifeminist views.

Abedin's mother remains the journal's editor-in-chief. Her father
founded the think tank that publishes the journal.

Clinton's campaign told the Post that Abedin was just a
figurehead at the journal.

"My understanding is that her name was simply listed on the
masthead in that period," Clinton spokesman Nick Merrill told the
Post. "She did not play a role in editing at the publication."